[elhombrelibre]

I remember reading once and having an historian confirm that there were only about 7 people in Bastille when it was liberated. They were common criminals. Still, just as there is a myth about all the French Resistance, when far more Frenchmen collaborated with the Nazis, there is a myth that Bastille was a great symbol of tyranny.

[Mark in the Old South]

I can not remember if it was seven but it wasn't very many and the Bastille was schedule for demolition by the crown until all was interrupted by that unpleasantness.

[razorback-bert]

Wasn't M. de Sade a prisoner there then, my memory is hazy?